Rayman Prototype Discovered After Almost 25 Years

Recently, a character that has made a lot of our childhood memories flush through our minds has popped up out of the blue. What was originally meant to be released for the Super Nintendo(SNES), the original prototype of RAYMAN has been discovered by Ubisoft designer Michel Ancel.

Throughout the years, Rayman has delivered some unique stories, starting from its first release all the way to the most recent 2014 release of Rayman Legends. Having frequently been delivered across many gaming platforms including PlayStation, iOS, Android, Xbox and Nintendo, this series has consistently executed exciting environments, wacky, creative sprites and challenging, hard-to-beat boss fights.

Amazingly, after being dormant for so long, the game is still operable and running at a full 60FPS. It also contains a two-player mode, which involves one player playing as Rayman himself and the second playing as a female Rayman. “Does she have a name? What do we call her? Raywoman? Raymanette? Rayb***h? Who knows!? Too Much Excitement!!!”. Interest and excitement has emerged from this discovery and fans are urging for it to be released publicly.

Michel says: “It was sleeping for 24 years … Time to wake it up !!!!”.

A classic platform game series which was first released on the Atari Jaguar in 1995 may well be making an appearance on the upcoming Nintendo Switch console. Rayman certainly caught the hearts of many throughout the years, and hearing something like this will definitely build up some noise among fans. It was originally supposed to be released on the legendary SNES via EPROM, but seeing as newer, more powerful systems like the PlayStation, Sega Saturn and Atari Jaguar were emerging into the gaming universe, it was therefore ultimately cancelled and brought to us on CDROM.

Until now, “only 4 people have seen the game running” and based what Ancel had to say, “We thought it was lost, but somewhere in the cold electronic circuit, something was still alive”, there have been suggestions that Ubisoft will port the game and release it as a Nintendo Switch title. We live in hope that it may be considered.

Upon this remarkable discovery, what do you think? Would you like to see this old Rayman game make an appearance on a new console?